STARVED and weak, a dog with bits of green plastic in its gut died in the arms of an animal welfare officer.
The mastiff became nothing more than a bag of bones when it was shut up for days in a car boot. The dog was forced to take nourishment from an

Elvis Hernandez thought he was doing a good deed when he rescued a loose dog. Hernandez, a locksmith, was helping a customer in a nearby town when he saw the dachshund running in the middle of the road. When he was finally able to catch the dog,

So small it's almost invisible, tucked into a dilapidated building on Sepulveda Blvd in West Los Angeles, is a private rescue run by a woman in her eighties. Her name is Martha Wyss and she's run the Friends of Animals Foundation, a no-kill shelter, since

Bruce Zeman brought a lawsuit against his former apartment landlord on behalf of his family and twenty other tenants of the building to enable them to keep their companion animals. After winning the suit, he went on to campaign in his city, Wanaque, New